People older than 65 share the most fake news, a new study finds
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Re: People older than 65 share the most fake news, a new study finds
#2Then again, people older than 65 share the most stuff period, if my relatives are any indication.
Re: People older than 65 share the most fake news, a new study finds
#3And they are more likely to vote than young people. We really have to work to make elderly people more digitally literate and young people more involved in politics, I reckon it will require the removal of multiple barriers (like, oh I don't know, not having the election on a weekday that makes no difference for retired people but all the difference in the world to minimum wage employees living pay check to pay check? And make it harder for ISPs to screw over rural people?).
Re: People older than 65 share the most fake news, a new study finds
#4Then again, people older than 65 share the most stuff period, if my relatives are any indication.
Age was apparently a better predictor than total number of links shared, according to the article.
Re: People older than 65 share the most fake news, a new study finds
#5And they are more likely to vote than young people. We really have to work to make elderly people more digitally literate and young people more involved in politics, I reckon it will require the removal of multiple barriers (like, oh I don't know, not having the election on a weekday that makes no difference for retired people but all the difference in the world to minimum wage employees living pay check to pay check…
Young people have always been less interested in politics. Just because you/we don't like how the elderly are voting, we don't have to make this a bigger issue than it is.
Re: People older than 65 share the most fake news, a new study finds
#6It makes sense - they grew up in a time where news was (relatively) reliable/truthful, so perhaps don't have the same "this may not be true" skepticism that younger generations have.
Re: People older than 65 share the most fake news, a new study finds
#7And they are more likely to vote than young people. We really have to work to make elderly people more digitally literate and young people more involved in politics, I reckon it will require the removal of multiple barriers (like, oh I don't know, not having the election on a weekday that makes no difference for retired people but all the difference in the world to minimum wage employees living pay check to pay check…
Is digital literacy the problem? Believing that a prominent politician ran a prostitution ring is a basic reasoning problem. I think we'll have to wait until they die off.
Re: People older than 65 share the most fake news, a new study finds
#8It makes sense - they grew up in a time where news was (relatively) reliable/truthful, so perhaps don't have the same "this may not be true" skepticism that younger generations have.
Sorta. Propaganda is not a new thing.
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#9It makes sense that people who discovered the Internet through Facebook and Twitter at a later age would be more susceptible to memes.
I have been wondering if this will get better or worse. Once all Internet users have been using it since a very early age, will they be more skeptical and responsible? Or will they be more easily influenced?
I have been wondering what an elementary school course in memetics and evolutionary psychology should look like. Kids need memetic inoculation, not just to protect from fake news, but all kinds of automated marketing.
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#10Elderly people are frequently the target of scams.
I'm curious what the age statistics for people who clicked on Nigerian Prince scams and viagra spam were like before social media.